The Business Incubation Centre of the European Space Agency in Portugal, celebrating a year of operation, have six `startups` to develop projects around the space technology, predicting that about 30 companies that will be supported for five years to create 240 jobs and angariem capital exceeding 6.5 million euros, said the agency Lusa the Director of the Department of Knowledge Promotion and Innovation of the IPN, headquartered in Coimbra.
Carlos Cerqueira believes that the 30 companies incubated in this center will be the bill “ten million euros at the end of five years.”
The goal of the initiative involves using technology designed for space applications on Earth. For this, there are three possibilities: “ESA technology that is protected in the form of patent, the company’s own technology or a group of researchers designed for use in space and we want to bring to Earth and use of ESA data” , registered by their satellites, cleared Carlos Cerqueira.
The hatchery, with hubs in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, will support six companies per year with 50,000 euros of funding for the creation of a prototype that uses technology used in space.
Apart from financial support, the three centers involved – IPN, Science and Technology Park, University of Porto and DNA Cascais – pay for two years the incubation service and technical support in creating a business model for each company as expounded Carlos Cerqueira.
In the six companies that have already begun incubation, there airgel application ideas used in satellites in “high temperature situations” on earth, as in the case of pipelines, satellite data use in drones (unmanned airplanes) for collection more efficient indicators for agriculture or the use of technology of thermoelectric sensors nanossatélites for creating energy with the movement forward.
“They are good proposals, good teams and technology with enormous potential,” he said, considering that all projects “are robust from the business point of view.”
Four of the six firms in this first year of the hatchery were formed when the applications for the project, all of which must be less than four years.
According to Carlos Cerqueira, 50 thousand euros “are just a starting point,” since the initiative aims to prepare companies to “become interesting for investors”, not only Portuguese, but also foreign, contact this facilitated by the network ESA.
Today, held in Coimbra, in the IPN, at 17:00, the presentation of project results and the first six companies that will be supported.
The ceremony will be attended by representatives of ESA, the IPN, the National Innovation Agency, the Science and Technology Park, University of Porto, DNA Cascais and the Regional Coordination and Development Centre of the Commission.
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